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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🎮") wrote:

On that note, I see many devs prefer CSS Grid as if it supersedes Flexbox, but there are subtle differences. And I always go Flexbox first unless Grid is necessary. Not sure how to explain why though 🤔

https://social.lol/@db/115399784942320341

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🎮") wrote:

reading: "The CSS Reset, again" https://pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-reset-again/ by @pawelgrzybek

— great research. I'm liking the audacity of that flexbox by default!

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
prealpinux@mastodon.uno ("prealpinux :fedilug:") wrote:

Un epitaffio per la fine del web (sin qui conosciuto)

@internet

https://prealpinux.com/2025/10/19/un-epitaffio-per-la-fine.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The things that didn’t kill you made you stronger, apparently, though that was a lie; truth was, too many things left you still alive but broken and disturbed, and it was better not to experience them.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/9kxBAnC

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Well played, soft shark. Well played.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Oh hai, from #nokings SF!

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot. Somewhere, someone, probably, was laughing.”

— Bad Actors (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron
https://a.co/e7mfpDm

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
pouyllau ("Stéphane Pouyllau") wrote:

« L’écriture académique au format texte avec Markdown et Pandoc » par Bernard Pochet https://e-publish.uliege.be/md2/ #édition #pandoc #markdown #science

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NinaBernstein1@journa.host ("Nina Bernstein") wrote:

#NoKings #resist #laugh

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Memere ("Mémère") wrote:

It's a beautiful day for #NoKings - here's my sign. #amphtifa

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jwz wrote:

@jef "I apologize for the concern it caused" is NOT AN APOLOGY. The passive "it caused" leaves the fault with the nameless "concerned", not with the speaker.

"I apologize for the fact that people freaked out when I shouted fire" is not the same as "shouting fire was wrong".

An actual apology takes the form:

1: What I did was wrong;
2: This is why;
3: Here is how I'll be changing my behavior.

Most people, and no politicians, understand this.

ETA: Cleese understands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mIy97%5Frlo

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

Attachments:

• video: 6fdade6abbd7d22f.mp4

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Morris stood strong in opposition to tyrants today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/the-morris-protest-march/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

There's been some fog here lately

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Blackbird in a nearby tree.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

For this #caturday, three of my neighbours, the cats Skotta, Grása, and Loðmundur respectively. And the fourth cat is the one I spotted through the fog during my walk today

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

My kid’s signs for No Kings today. Their politics are the best testimony to my parenting.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I don't give a good goddamn what RFK jr thinks about sperm counts in teenage boys. Why are conservatives so obsessed with children's genitals?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/you-didnt-know-youd-wake-up-this-morning-to-hear-an-old-man-raving-about-teenaged-boys-sperm-counts/

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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Just learned about https://queeniescrew.com Queenie’s Crew - an opportunity and set of activities for kids age 6-10 to imagine a world without prisons (they will also send info and activities to educators and activists working with kids) #abolition #PICAbolition #interruptingCriminalization

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Protest today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/18/no-more-kings/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
jarunmb@techhub.social wrote:

👑 Everyone be safe out there today.

rust@mas.to ("Rust tips") wrote:

`&mut` references are exclusive and non-copyable¹.

When they're a field of a struct like an Iterator, you'll get `&'call mut &'field mut`, which usually limits *both* to `'call`'s lifetime.

Modifying the field's reference is going to need `std::mem::take` to operate on the only instance of the reference.

https://quinedot.github.io/rust-learning/lt-ex-mut-slice.html

¹) #RustLang can "re-borrow" them to make a new `&mut` loan, but it's not a copy, because it must have a shorter lifetime and makes the source temporarily unusable.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

And on the Ellis thing, I'd actually met him and chatted a couple of times, so my gut feeling of him being a narcissist wasn't just based on his behaviour on the forum, although, apparently, for a lot of people that's where they first encountered his misbehaviour.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

IIRC it wasn't even a quick "you crazy" quip. He went on at length about how I clearly needed substantial psychiatric help. Sounded like a fun guy.

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stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

Please remember that "Red Tape" is why there's no sawdust in your bread and the nearest river has not actually caught on fire lately.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Runner up: getting called mentally ill by the guy who's thing was a web comic the shape and size of a banner ad claiming it was the future of comics syndication, after I wrote a column pointing out that banner blindness meant he had effectively specialised in making invisible comics

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Thinking back, to the 90s internet, probably my greatest claim to 5 minutes of internet fame (not much fame, just a tiny bit of notoriety) was getting banned from the Warren Ellis Forum for calling Ellis a narcissist (wasn't proven right on that one for over 25 years)

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jswatz_tx@threads.net ("John Schwartz") wrote:

If these billionaire buttheads had gotten a good liberal arts education, they’d have read “Ozymandias.“ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-17/america-s-tech-right-is-obsessed-with-building-giant-statues

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

By not trying to shoehorn it into every damn thing and/or just writing that email ourself, like a normal educated human would?

https://search.app/uvK5c